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Conversation Piece / Post-Colonial GoldIn dialogue with Eva HesseIconic resonance: Tilda SwintonValue: Material Disobedience This conversation piece stands in dialogue with Eva Hes se. Not by literally quoting her work, but by making visible a related attitude: the refusal of perfect form, smooth finish and obedient beauty. The object consists of rough white forms, an open circle and gold-toned wire. Together, they do not form a classical piece of jewellery, but a tense construction. The object moves between body, amulet, loop and sculpture. The wire holds the elements together, while also making visible that they do not naturally belong together. This is where meaning begins. In the 1960s, Eva Hesse broke open the cool perfection of Minimal Art. Where Minimalism was often strict, industrial and controlled, Hesse introduced instability, bodily presence and doubt. She worked with materials such as latex, fibreglass, rubber, rope, cord and wire: materials that can hang, pull, discolour, age, fold or lose their shape. In Hesse’s work, material is never merely execution. The material thinks with the work. It resists. It does not fully obey form, system or control. This is precisely where its strength appears. This object translates that value into a wearable sculpture: Material Disobedience. The rough white forms are not smoothed out. The gold-toned wire is not decoration, but tension. The open circle does not neatly complete the object, but allows space, emptiness and imbalance to remain. Within Post-Colonial Gold, gold is not used as a sign of luxury, but as the marker of a new value system. Value does not arise here from perfection, possession or classical beauty, but from resistance: from material that seems to have its own will, from forms that do not fully resolve, from a construction that visibly holds itself together. Tilda Swinton becomes a powerful iconic carrier of this value. Her public image and artistic presence represent a rare form of androgynous intelligence: neither conventionally feminine nor conventionally masculine, but precise, sculptural and difficult to categorise. Like Hesse, she does not make vulnerability small or sentimental, but monumental. In her work, the body is not ornament, but a site of meaning, tension and transformation. Swinton and Hesse meet not through discipline, but through attitude. Both refuse singularity. Both move between hard and soft, control and collapse, body and object, distance and intimacy. Their strength lies not in spectacle, but in formal awareness, ambiguity and the courage not to be fully readable. For our time, this value feels urgent again. We live in a culture in which much is expected to appear smooth, marketable, filtered and finished. Material Disobedience reminds us that meaning can also arise from unrest, vulnerability and resistance. Not everything needs to be perfect, stable or obedient in order to carry value. No ornament.A form that refuses to behave neatly. Each piece is handmade and unique. Through a unique ID and QR code, the object is connected to a digital layer: the artist in dialogue, the value, the material reference and the context behind the work. Specifications Type: wearable sculptureMaterial: rough white sculptural forms, gold-toned wire, transparent neck cordFinish: handmade; each piece is uniqueCollection: Conversation Pieces / Post-Colonial GoldArtist in dialogue: Eva HesseIconic resonance: Tilda SwintonValue: Material DisobedienceDigital layer: unique ID + QR codeUse: sculptural wearable object, handle with carePrice: €550 Shipping Info Ships from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Each piece is carefully packed and shipped with tracking.As every object is handmade and unique, small variations in finish, form and material are part of the work. Meta Description Handmade wearable sculpture necklace by Annelies Nuy, part of Conversation Pieces / Post-Colonial Gold, in dialogue with Eva Hesse. With Tilda Swinton as iconic resonance, the object translates the value Material Disobedience into a wearable sculptural form. HS code: 711790EU commodity / CN code: 71179000Product description: Handmade imitation jewellery / wearable sculpture necklace made with rough white sculptural forms, gold-toned wire and transparent cord. #EvaHesse #TildaSwinton #MaterialDisobedience #AnneliesNuy #PostColonialGold #ConversationPieces #WearableSculpture #SculpturalJewellery #WearableArt #ContemporaryArt #ArtJewellery #HandmadeJewellery #ObjectWithMeaning #MaterialMemory #FemaleArtisticKnowledge #MuseumShop #ConceptStore #GalleryShop #CollectibleDesign #UniqueJewellery #PortableArchiveOfValue Show more